This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...

Contents -- Foreword: Markku Markkula -- Foreword -- Bror Salmelin: Foreword: Se-Hwa Wu -- Preface: Leif Edvinsson -- Preface: Carol Yeh-Yun Lin -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 3. National Intellectual Capital Development of the Four...

This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development after WWII is a well-known story. However, their development after the successful post-war industrialization has...